Thread: Picked up new rifle today.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

bluecod has some of the hogdgon version of 2213 for sale at good price.... great stuff for the mighty .270w still plenty of projectiles around too.
premium projectile...yeah nah..maybe a sample pack of 150grn partitions for special trip,but the basic pills just work so well I CANNOT FOR LIFE OF ME see reason to change to something flasherer and more spendy.

It is not 'for the life of you' that a premium projectile should be used @Micky Duck, it is 'for the humane quick death of the deer'. The following link put up by Russian 22 can be followed to an article on projectile testing done here in NZ https://web.archive.org/web/20130208....nz/howto.html. The big heavy round-nose projectiles were worst at through scrub deflection. Swift Sirrocco came out best all round. Well worth reading as there is a lot more than what I have written here

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

It is not 'for the life of you' that a premium projectile should be used @Micky Duck, it is 'for the humane quick death of the deer'. The following link put up by Russian 22 can be followed to an article on projectile testing done here in NZ https://web.archive.org/web/20130208....nz/howto.html. The big heavy round-nose projectiles were worst at through scrub deflection. Swift Sirrocco came out best all round. Well worth reading as there is a lot more than what I have written here

Norma did a deflection test years ago too using dowels. Round nose performed no better than spire point.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Norma did a deflection test years ago too using dowels. Round nose performed no better than spire point.

Well we will have to see if MD will consume humble pie ( as he should in this case

Originally Posted by Tahr

Norma did a deflection test years ago too using dowels. Round nose performed no better than spire point.

And Graham Henry also did a test and found the nice pointy type projectiles actually performed better both in the dowel test and in some actual scrub tests.